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Friction, lubrication, adhesion, and wear are prevalent physical
phenomena in everyday life and in many key technologies. This book
incorporates a bottom-up approach to friction, lubrication, and
wear into a versatile textbook on tribology. This is done by
focusing on how these tribological phenomena occur on the small
scale - the atomic to the micrometer scale - a field often called
nanotribology. The book covers the microscopic origins of the
common tribological concepts of roughness, elasticity, plasticity,
friction coefficients, and wear coefficients. Some macroscale
concepts (like elasticity) scale down well to the micro- and
atomic-scale, while other macroscale concepts (like hydrodynamic
lubrication) do not. In addition, this book also has chapters on
topics not typically found in tribology texts: surface energy,
surface forces, lubrication in confined spaces, and the atomistic
origins of friction and wear. These chapters cover tribological
concepts that become increasingly important at the small scale:
capillary condensation, disjoining pressure, contact
electrification, molecular slippage at interfaces, atomic scale
stick-slip, and atomic bond breaking. Throughout the book, numerous
examples are provided that show how a nanoscale understanding of
tribological phenomena is essential to the proper engineering of
important modern technologies such as MEMS, disk drives, and
nanoimprinting. For the second edition, all the chapters have been
revised and updated to incorporate the most recent advancements in
nanoscale tribology. Another important enhancement to the second
edition is the addition of problem sets at the end of each chapter.
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